Tom Robbins Quotes

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

People want riches; they need fulfillment.

Hopefully, sometime I get a superpower. I would like to be able to transport myself wherever I wanted.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

People are really willing to believe in impossible things, which is really beautiful.

Man soon finds what he wants to find. If he cannot find it otherwise, he creates it for his special enjoyment

I think hope and magic are probably connected.

Harry Potter' is my favorite series, and I've always loved that wish fulfillment, 'anything is possible' idea.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Future is your projection of unfulfilled desires. The more unfulfilled you are, the bigger a future you have. The more unfulfilled is your being, the richer the dreams you have of the future. But it is just in your mind.

I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.